Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-04-15


General Master Workman Powderly is
going abroad on a lecturing tour.
Dun's commercial report says business
is improving, with fewer failures
Contoocook, y. H., was badly shaken by
an earthquake sLo k on the 9th inst
Judge lillian =. Pierce, "A famous aboli
Zionist, died in Philadelphia recently.
Peach growers i'm New Jersey say the
crop this year will be the heaviest of years
Hon Edward Cross, Judge o the federal
court of the territory Of Arkansas, is dead.
The Illinois legislature ha, passed n bill
prohibiting the marriage OF first cousins.
The Mass lchusett, state printing Office
in Boston was destroyed by fire on the eth
inst
The Missouri Pacific traffic round house
at Omaha was burned the other day. Loss
5000
Five men were drowned by the capsizing
of boat on tia CBur d'Alene river the
other day.
Baron Taverna the new Austrian minis
ter. was introduced TO the resident the
other day.
An equestrian statue OF Gen. Joseph +.
johnson was unveiled at New Orleans on
the 9th inst
A boiler exploded at Harrisvile, w. Va
on the sth inst, and four men were in
stantly killed.
Tx Secretary Manning is in London.
His heath il improving, AMI his strength
is increasing daily.
1hou and of contraband horses are be-
ing smuggled into Texas. The authorities
are Investigating.
A Chinese cook shot and killed Mrs Jes-
sup Billion at 1t John, Cal, and wounded
another man and woman
1t is state that ere viii soon be pub
lishod a novel Washing ton 50 ,iety from
the pen of Mrs. Gen. Logan
Herr Most the notorious anarchist, who
va, sentenced 10 Blackwell is AMI about
a year a-o la been released
I is re orted that James G.. Blaine is
seriously i'll at the re-ilenc Of his ,on-in
law, at For. Glib on nd Ter
= public meeting was hald in Augusta,
ia the other night TO protest against the
passage II the Irish crimes bill.
y Fay City jury give, James II. Dakin
50 coo for tIc o that wa taken off 10y the
Flint * Pero Mar luette railroad
The Arkansas legislature has passed
bill to settle thu undisputed state debt
which amounts TO about s5t000OO
There are at present ~ women employed
in the tie sury department and it pro
posed t. increase the number t 100.
Sixty thousand dollars is being raised
t. endow rrofessorship in Amherst col
lege in honor Of Henry Ward Beecher
Tho bill authorizing the carrying out of
death sentences 10y electri ity was de
feated 10y the Pennsylvania legislature.
Members of Temp e Israel. the leading
Jewish congregation OF st Louis sub
scribed 500 TO the Beecher monument
Ind
Jill ha' been introduced i'll the Penn
sylvania lie gislature making Saturdays
between June 10 and Sept. - legal holt
days.
David Lynch, a veteran who served sew
enteen yer, of life sentence for murder
in the Ohio peniten;iary, has been par
doned.
Charges OF cruelty and immortality have
been brought against the managers and
attendant, Of the insane YUM at Spring
field, Mass.
An exten i've deposit Of natural gas has
been found near Covington, Ky IL as
capes with such force that il is difficult 70
stop the ilov
The interstate commerce commission
has appointed +. l.. Pugh, son Of Senator
Pugh of Alabama, t. acer&ship IN Ter that
commission.
Or. Parker of London is to come TO
Brooklyn and deliver the Grafton at a
s.1 Ill 4
inc in June.
Judge Cooley will hold that the inter
tate commerce law applies to express
companies until the latter bring proof TO
tie contrary.
Cen John McNuta Of Bloomington. ILL.,,
las been appointed receiver of the Wa
,ash railway lines lying east of the Mis-
Iissippi river.
The secretary OF the treasury has decid
al that national bank repositories are not
'equre TO redeem trade dollars under
the recent act
The Secretary OF the Interior has pro
mulgated new rules for the government of
the Yellowstone National Park The rules
are very stringent
The Canadian passenger agents OF the
II. Lawrence tourist route say that the
inter state commerce law does not inter
fere with tourist travel.
Mr.. Lucy johnson, wife OF Associate
Justice johnson of the Minnesota supreme
court, has been elected to the board of
education % Miuneap oils
1ha Minneapolis milers are sending -four
10 New Orleans by water. pending a set
Element or the vexed Prov lions OF the
Interstate commerce law.
snow storm at Augusta and Chippewa
Falls, Wis, tho other night, was followed
10y a fall Of dust or mud which made
thin coating oyer the snow.
The petition OF the men who want the
civil service law declared unconstitutional
have been dismissed by the supreme court
of the District of Columbia.
A company with capital of s5,Oo0,Oo0
has been organized in New York for the
purpose of developing ore mines between
Kingston and Renfrew, Canada.
Hon. ID. Wyatt Aiken, late representa-
tive in congress from the third South